Butte County Fire Safe Council

09/01/2026

The Chico Enterprise Record Review spent a day out near Paradise Lake last week, following one of our fuels reduction projects across the Magalia landscape.

Over about 130 acres, our contracted crews used an excavator and chainsaws to cut and pile thick surface and ladder fuels, prepping the stand for future prescribed fire. The project is a partnership with the Plumas National Forest, one of many that make landscape-scale treatment possible across private, federal, and local ownership.

Thanks to the Enterprise-Record for the coverage!

Read it here: https://www.chicoer.com/2026/09/01/crews-tear-through-fire-fuels-near-paradise-lake/

08/25/2026

A big thank you to the North Valley Community Foundation for their generous support of wildfire prevention work across our region. NVCF awarded $130,000 in grants to 10 wildfire prevention and response projects spanning Butte, Glenn, Tehama, and Colusa counties - funded through both the Donna Murrill Wildfire Fund and the Camp Fire Fund.

We are grateful to be among them. Thanks to a total of $20,000 in funding, the Butte County Fire Safe Council is able to help vulnerable homeowners create defensible space around their homes and complete risk assessments that identify where they are most exposed. This funding also supports our new Gravel Grant Program, giving residents another practical tool for building defensible space right where they live.

This is the kind of partnership that keeps our neighbors and our landscape safer. We are grateful to NVCF for standing alongside communities across the North Valley.

08/17/2026

August is dry and hot across the county, with grasses fully cured and fuel moisture low - a stretch of the year that warrants close attention.

As the dry season deepens, our thoughts return to the Bear/North Complex Fire, which tore through the Feather River country in the fall of 2020: Berry Creek, Feather Falls, and the drainages and ridgelines that hold them. We pause to remember those who passed away, and the animals, homes, and places we lost.

Six years on, the land has done much of its growing back on its own - manzanita and deerbrush filling the slopes, black oaks throwing up new growth. But that regrowth cuts both ways: the same green that marks the land's return becomes, in time, the fuel that carries the next fire. And it will come again - which is why the surest place to prepare is the ground right around where you live. Working outward from your home - the first five feet, then out to thirty, then past - builds defensible space: room enough for a fire to lie down, for crews to make a stand, and for your household to get out safely.

Learn more and find defensible space resources at buttefiresafe.net

07/27/2026

🌲 We're hiring: Project Managers (3 openings)

Join the Butte County Fire Safe Council in our work at the forefront of wildfire resilience and landscape stewardship. Our Project Managers plan, coordinate, and implement fuels reduction and forest health projects across Butte County, working alongside landowners, foresters, contractors, tribal partners, and agencies.

If you're passionate about building fire-adapted communities and healthy forests, we'd love to hear from you.

We're also still accepting applications for a Registered Professional Forester (active CA RPF license required).

Details and how to apply: buttefiresafe.net/careers

07/24/2026

This week marks two years since the Park Fire.

July carries the weight of some of Butte County's most recent wildfires - the Thompson Fire, the Dixie Fire, and the Park Fire. Fires that started here and grew into some of the largest in California's history, burning over one million acres across Northern California, roughly 572,649 of them here in Butte County. The impact of that scale reaches far beyond our landscapes and communities, touching the north state and California as a whole.

Yet there's a deeper truth here: Butte County is held together by people of remarkable strength, many of whom have endured more than one wildfire in their lifetime. Their perseverance through the unimaginable grounds our work and reminds us why it matters. This community keeps showing up - adapting, learning, and rebuilding in a place shaped by fire.

That work is restoration stitched together across the county, held up by the community networks that are the true backbone of recovery. It's grassroots, collaborative, and measurable. It happens with neighbors, dirty hands, chainsaws, drip torches, clipboards, and hard conversations. It honors the wisdom of the past while staying steady on the road ahead.

This is work that reaches past the burn scars and foothills. It touches people, it carries our history forward, and it teaches us to live well alongside fire - so that what we love has the chance to endure.

07/17/2026

You're invited to join a stakeholders meeting with all active education, community support, and safety groups in Berry Creek.

Thursday, July 30th
5:00 PM
Butte County Fire Station 61 (297 Rockefeller Rd, Berry Creek)

Learn about upcoming events, free resources, and ways to get involved. All are welcome!

Pizza and refreshments provided. 🍕

Berry Creek Community Collective
Friends of Berry Creek
Berry Creek Rants, Raves & all discussion.

07/13/2026

07/10/2026

📣Join Butte County CERT TODAY at 202 Mira Loma (Klamath Room) in Oroville, between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, to apply for a no-cost ALERT FM receiver.

ALERT FM receivers are designed to deliver emergency alerts issued by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office without reliance on electricity or cellular service. Each receiver operates on Micro-USB power with a single AA-battery backup, capable of lasting up to three weeks without external power, ensuring continued communication during crises.

The receivers will be provided free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible community members living in the following areas: Bangor, Berry Creek, Butte Creek Canyon, Butte Meadows, Butte Valley, Clipper Mills, Cohasset, Concow, Forbestown, Forest Ranch, Magalia, Stirling City, Honcut, Palermo, Robinson Mill, South Oroville, and Yankee Hill.

Learn more at https://www.buttecounty.ca.gov/1499/AlertFM

07/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out on June 6 to celebrate the 5th Annual Paradise Grazing Festival with us - this was our liveliest year yet, and it's because of this community.

We're so grateful for the chance to share targeted grazing as a working tool for wildfire prevention here in Butte County. A huge thank you to our volunteers, bands, vendors, partners, and every single person who showed up to make it happen. We couldn't do this without you.

Curious about targeted grazing? Link in bio.